Credits

There are lots of people missing from the programming world: lots of the programmers I meet look and sound a lot like me. I’d really like it if this amazing job were open to a lot more people.

One of the weird things that has happened is that somehow we seem to have the idea that programming is only for boys, and I’d like to fight against that idea by wearing a t-shirt demonstrating how cool I think it is to be a woman coder.

So, I commissioned a design from an amazing artist called Ellie Mars, who I found through her Mastodon.art page @elliemars@mastodon.art. She did an amazing job, sending sketches and ideas back and forth, and finally she came up with this awesome design:

I’ve printed a t-shirt for myself that I will give myself for Christmas, and I’ve made a page on Street Shirts so you can get one too!

I’ve uploaded 2 designs, but if you’d like me to set something different up for you, let me know. Also, these links will expire, but I can re-set them up for you if you contact me. They are reasonably cheap:

Ellie and I agreed to set up these t-shirts sales with no profit for us because we’d like to get the word out. If they are popular we might add a little, so get in fast for a good deal!

10 points for anyone who can recognise the code in the background. It’s from one of my favourite programs.

Personally, I think we all spend too much of our time walking around advertising faceless corporations when we could be saying something a bit more useful on our clothes. What do you think of this idea? Maybe you could design a similar t-shirt? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or on Twitter or Mastodon.

I have spent the last few hours investigating abysmal performance in my latest little game project Cross The Road. Firefox was fine, but Chromium and Chrome, especially on mobile, was rendering at about three frames per second.

When I stopped using SVGs as background-images for my elements, and used PNGs instead, it improved to about 20-30 FPS.

It seems fine to use SVGs as normal images, but for background-image, it really hurt performance.